Xavier is at the heart of a kind of European environmentalism that is largely unknown in Ireland (and we'd be much better off if that changed). Come to Maynooth on Thursday, and learn more about how hope is more than you thought

Thinking about this again and how it fundamentally changes your relationship with your doctors and nurses. It's like a plot point from a paranoid right-wing movie that you'd accelerate what is, objectively, one of the gravest changes to the social contract imaginable

One can only be touched regarding people's sudden interest in the welfare of coastal bird populations.

Now possible to spend your first year and final day under the custody of the Irish State

Commenting on the lies about Haitians, the Ohio-based Archbishop said: “Anti-immigrant sentiment has always been tied to anti-Catholicism" in America americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

Caring for life demands resources. Any parent or caregiver knows that. But the resources are there to foster life, not life for resources. Once we start quantifying the value of lives, there’s no going back. The choice of where to draw the line is always arbitrary.

Darach Ó Séaghdha In the words of David O’Doherty, “Age is just a number. But it’s also a very good barometer of how old you are.”

Friends who lecture! I've my first big class tomorrow - ~160 1st year (Freshman) Arts students - who have chosen to do an intro to Theology. Any essential tips for connecting with & handling such a large cohort?

Controversial take! She's right. Active lifestyles encourage holistic flourishing. I suspect fixing on obesity is self-defeating but contrasting with the Netherlands is instructive. 16.5% of Irish children are overweight, 7.6% obese. In Holland, these figures are 7.6% & 3.7%

As I began to do the promised write-up of what is working for me in the classroom, I realized there's so much to be said. I shouldn't be surprised. Teaching well takes a lot of forethought, but it is worth it. Here's my first piece. More to come! open.substack.com/pub/doloresgmo…

This is a bomb dropping on so many of our stances towards the world

An epic moment in my childhood, when Toto Schillaci shattered our dreams. May he rest in peace.

I am watching politicians and political parties on inheritance tax. Everyone in favor of cutting it automatically gets sent to the pits of the preference pile, with only the Far-Right and their ludicrous pals below them

I wouldn't be who I'm called to be if I didn't clarify that the reason to become a Christian is that it's true

The only Joan of Arc movie I'm interested in is going to be directed by a woman, who is French, and Christian, and a general, who is blessed by epiphanies, and then becomes a martyr to the faith. Everything else fails the representation test.